A short AI dev tools roundup for Workollab readers. New frameworks, agent infrastructure, model releases, and practitioner commentary worth your time this week.
AI Dev Tools
- [AINews] not much happened today (Latent Space)
a quiet day before the storm. - HTML table extractor (Simon Willison)
Tool: HTML table extractor Yet another in my growing collection of paste-conversion tools. This one accepts pasted rich text from browsers (with embedded HTML tables) and converts every detected table into HTML, Markdown, CSV, TSV, or JSON. - Count the number of Safari tabs (Simon Willison)
Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari , til , applescript - WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense (Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase))
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. - “It’s Hard to Eval” Is a Product Smell (Hamel Husain)
For the past 3 years, AI evals have been my professional focus. 1 The most common objection I hear to evals is “our product is hard to eval”. This objection is a product smell. Artifacts that are hard for you to verify are often hard for us - Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem (Interconnects)
An assessment of the open ecosystem and the motivations behind releasing models
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